Principal Clinical Psychologist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Band 8B Clinical Psychologist to join their Central Home-Based Treatment Team. This role involves providing high-quality clinical psychology services and supervising other team members in their assessments and therapies. The ideal candidate will work autonomously within professional guidelines, contributing to the development of policies and services. The organization promotes flexible working arrangements to support a positive work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Ability to provide high quality specialist clinical psychology service.
• Experience in supervising psychological assessments and therapy.
• Autonomous practice within professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure systematic provision of clinical psychology service.
• Supervise and support psychological assessment by team members.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Utilise research skills for policy and service development.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity for a Band 8B Clinical Psychologist has arisen to join the Central Home-Based Treatment Team and Central Mental Health Liaison Team.

Home Based Treatment Team offer 24-hour support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute inpatient environment. There is a strong focus on preventative interventions, robust risk management and the recovery model to provide quality care in a community setting.

MHLT provide Mental health assessments to service users who present to the Royal Preston Accident and Emergency Department and Chorley Urgent Centre In addition MHLT provide assessment, care and treatment plans to patients who are receiving care on the medical wards. The team has a full MDT approach consisting of Mental Health Nurses, Doctors, Health Care Assistants and Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

The Central Home-Based Treatment Team and Mental health Liaison team strive towards excellence and pride themselves as teams who are kind, compassionate and flexible.

The Post holder will be supported by the local Professional Lead for Clinical Psychology.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients and staff within the HBTT and IRS areas of responsibility.
• To supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care, treatment and assessment.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated areas of responsibility.
• To utilise research skills, audit, policy and service development and research and implement policy changes within the areas served by the team/service in agreement with the relevant manager.

Benefits

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025